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I thought that's what I said, but last I looked these were pretty 
much limited to inverses of an index as opposed to being mirrors of a 
lot of other stuff.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "areehoi" <hoierman@xxxx> wrote:
> Fred & All:
> Rydex and Pro Funds have Short funds that you can play the same as a
> short.  You can switch between there long and short funds on a daily
> basis.
> 
> Dick H.
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Fred" <fctonetti@xxxx> wrote:
> > You can not short mutual funds, but there are some index oriented 
> > funds typically based on SPX / NDX / RUT that are built to track 
> > inversely from the indexes themselves.  So the purchase of these 
> > would equate roughly to the shorting of the index.
> > 
> > Someone will undoubtedly come along and slap me upside the head 
for 
> > saying this but imho the short side of the market is more 
difficult 
> > to play than the long side.  There are several reasons for this 
not 
> > the least of which is that if for no other reason than inflation 
the 
> > bias of the market is from a very long term perspective, up.  If 
one 
> > were to look at how many up days there were versus how many down 
days 
> > one would see that over a very long period of time that the ratio 
is 
> > about 60/40.  This is easy to see when looking at long term 
charts as 
> > the character of bull markts is differnet then that of bears, 
where 
> > the former has a tendancy to take a lot longer to move a similar 
> > distance then the latter when one is looking at environments that 
are 
> > of equal degree.
> >  
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "jtelang" <jtelang@xxxx> wrote:
> > > Fred,
> > > 
> > > From this, do I understand it correctly that one can't go
> > > short on MF's? Why would one be sitting on cash otherwise?
> > > Or may be I'm not following what you said below...
> > > 
> > > Jitu
> > > 
> > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Fred" <fctonetti@xxxx> wrote:
> > > > One other note regarding short term trading ... There are of 
> > course 
> > > > ways to accomplish the same thing with out actually taking 
the 
> > > short 
> > > > term trades i.e. by hedging using a bear oriented fund 
leaving 
> > you 
> > > > more or less market neutral during the period of time when 
you 
> > > would 
> > > > have been sitting in cash.
> > > > 
> > > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Fred" <fctonetti@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > > > > See below ...
> > > > > 
> > > > > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chuck Rademacher" 
> > > > > <chuck_rademacher@x> wrote:
> > > > > > Maybe some of you guys (and gals) who trade mutual funds 
can 
> > > > answer 
> > > > > a couple
> > > > > > of questions?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 1.  If there's no money to be made in (rotational trading 
of) 
> > > > > ETF's, am I
> > > > > > correct when I assume that there's no money to be made in 
the 
> > > > Rydex-
> > > > > like
> > > > > > funds that only mimic an index?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Rydex's funds are pretty much either index or sector 
oriented.  
> > > > This 
> > > > > is not the kind of thing I personally like to trade.  But 
for 
> > > > example 
> > > > > if you have a system that trades SPX, NDX or RUT well or is 
> > good 
> > > at 
> > > > > jumping on the sector that's likely to be hot next as 
opposed 
> > to 
> > > > the 
> > > > > one that just was then it would certainly work in this 
scenario.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 2.  Based on current rules and redemption penalties, 
which 
> > > > families 
> > > > > of
> > > > > > mutual funds can you recommend for rotational trading?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't personally trade on what one would consider to be a 
> > > > > rotational basis.  As I and Ken stated, erf's or the funds 
> > > > management 
> > > > > policies will eventually weed out most if not all the short 
> > term 
> > > > > traders, especially the ones with large dollars.  So if you 
are 
> > > > > looking to trade mf's with some sort of short term oriented 
> > > > > rotational system as opposed to one that trades on an 
> > > intermediate 
> > > > > basis picking good candidates at the beginning of a market 
buy 
> > > and 
> > > > > for the most part holding them until a market sell then you 
are 
> > > > going 
> > > > > to find yourself pretty much limited to Rydex, ProFunds & 
> > Potomac.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 3.  If most (or all) such families of funds charge early 
> > > > redemption 
> > > > > fees, is
> > > > > > it safe to assume that you are trading these mid to long 
term?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > There's no sense in me working on a system that appears 
to do 
> > > > well, 
> > > > > only to
> > > > > > find that redemption fees are going to kill me.   Or, is 
it 
> > > > > possible that
> > > > > > there's enough money to be made that the fees are of 
little 
> > > > > consequence?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Most do NOT yet charge erf's and as you can see from prior 
> > posts 
> > > > it's 
> > > > > debatable as to whether or not they will and if so what the 
> > > minimum 
> > > > > holding periods will be to trigger those.  For short term 
> > > oriented 
> > > > > traders adding a 1-2% erf in a 7-14 day period would be 
enough 
> > to 
> > > > > send them elsewhere or to a different methodology.  What 
the 
> > SEC 
> > > or 
> > > > > the fund companies themselves will do with this remains to 
be 
> > > > seen.  
> > > > > They really can't afford to be too outrageous with it as 
every 
> > > > > 401k/IRA/VA account holder on the planet will be screaming 
> > bloody 
> > > > > murder.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Out of all of the above, I'm really interested in some 
> > > > > recommendations on
> > > > > > mutual fund families to trade.  I can then go do my own 
> > > > > investigation as to
> > > > > > their fees, etc and devise my own systems that will work 
with 
> > > > those 
> > > > > fees.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I wouldn't think families as there is no real reason to 
just 
> > like 
> > > > > there is no real reason to arbitrarilly limit ones trading 
in 
> > > > stocks 
> > > > > to some specific group based on whatever.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks


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